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Poetry: Safe as Houses

Safe as Houses

Don’t think you can take the migrants out of me.

Every time I hear you say all the wrongs that

  • Don’t Mention the children: Poems by Michael Rosen (£8.95) is published by Smokestack Books and available from smokestack-books.co.uk
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